Natural resource rents, autocracy and the composition of government spending

This paper empirically analyzes the influence of rents from natural resources on the composition of government spending and investigates whether the relationship differs between democracies and autocracies. Both panel data and instrumental variable regressions suggest that there is a negative joint...

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Published in:	MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 27-2017)
Main Author:	Endrikat, Morten
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Wirtschaft Natural Resources government spending institutions resource curse Economics
Online Access:	PDF Full Text
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